REBOOT AND REBOOT - -

[waryaa]

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REBOOTE AND REBOOT - -

THANKS
WARYAA

 

[KenCunningham]

An 'E'? ;-)

Can you clarify what you mean please?

 

[KenCunningham]

From the man pages for reboot:

EXAMPLES
Example 1: Example of the reboot command.

In the example below, the delimiter `--' (two hyphens) must be used to separate the options of reboot from the arguments of boot(1M).

SunOS 5.7 Last change: 22 Mar 1996 1

Maintenance Commands reboot(1M)

example# reboot -dl -- -rv

Hope this helps.

 

[waryaa]

I KNOW WHAT REBOOT IS, BUT I DONOT KNOW REBOOT -- IS ? I DID NOT GET WHY TWO HYPENS IS THERE. I HAVE SEEN, SOME SYS ADMIMS ARE USING WHEN THEY WANT TO REBOOT THE SYSTEM.

I THOUGHT READ SOME WHERE, "REBOOT -- " IS THE BY PASS THE OK PROMPT, BUT I AM NOT SURE.


THANSK
WARYAA

 

[KenCunningham]

The two hyphens separate the reboot command from the options you wish to pass to the boot process. In the above example from the man pages, the -rv indicates a 'reconfiguation boot' is required and that this should be in verbose mode.

Hope this helps.